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Tuesday, May 18, 2027

Tuesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time

The liturgical day

Tuesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time
Liturgical color: Green

The Mass readings

First reading: Sirach 2:1-11
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40
Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

Read today's Mass readings on the USCCB site

The readings open on the USCCB website. They follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the United States, a different translation from the Douay-Rheims we use on this site. Desert Road Catholic is not affiliated with the USCCB.

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40

Douay-Rheims: Psalm 36:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40 (Psalm 37 at Mass)

³Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches. ⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will give thee the requests of thy heart.

¹⁸The Lord knoweth the days of undefiled; and their inheritance shall be for ever. ¹⁹They shall not be confounded in the evil time; and in the days of famine they shall be filled:

²⁷Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever. ²⁸For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

³⁹But the salvation of the just is from the Lord, and he is their protector in the time of trouble. ⁴⁰And the Lord will help them and deliver them: and he will rescue them from the wicked, and save them, because they have hoped in him.

Gospel: Mark 9:30-37

Douay-Rheims: Mark 9:29-36

²⁹And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee, and he would not that any man should know it. ³⁰And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day. ³¹But they understood not the word, and they were afraid to ask him. ³²And they came to Capharnaum. And when they were in the house, he asked them: What did you treat of in the way? ³³But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest. ³⁴And sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them: If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all, and the minister of all. ³⁵And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he had embraced, he saith to them: ³⁶Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name, receiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

The same passages in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), the translation we use on this site. The words read at Mass come from the Lectionary for Mass and differ. Where a reading begins or ends partway through a verse, the whole verse is shown. For the official text, open the readings on the USCCB site.

May 2027

May 2027
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1, Saturday of the fifth week of Easter, liturgical color white
2, Sixth Sunday of Easter, liturgical color white	3, Saints Philip and James, Apostles, liturgical color red	4, Tuesday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	5, Wednesday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	6, Thursday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	7, Friday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white	8, Saturday of the sixth week of Easter, liturgical color white
9, The Ascension of the Lord, liturgical color white, Solemnity	10, Monday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	11, Tuesday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	12, Wednesday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	13, Thursday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white	14, Saint Matthias, Apostle, liturgical color red	15, Saturday of the seventh week of Easter, liturgical color white
16, Pentecost Sunday, liturgical color red, Solemnity	17, Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, liturgical color white	18, Tuesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green, this page	19, Wednesday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	20, Thursday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	21, Friday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	22, Saturday of the seventh week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
23, The Most Holy Trinity, liturgical color white, Solemnity	24, Monday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	25, Tuesday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	26, Saint Philip Neri, Priest, liturgical color white	27, Thursday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	28, Friday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green	29, Saturday of the eighth week of Ordinary Time, liturgical color green
30, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, liturgical color white, Solemnity	31, The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, liturgical color white

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Saint of the day

Saint John I, Pope and MartyrOptional memorial. Died in 526.

A word for the day

Grace does not destroy nature but perfects it.

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, I, q. 1, a. 8, reply to objection 2. Translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province. Read it on Project Gutenberg.

The Rosary today

The Sorrowful Mysteries, prayed on Tuesday and Friday.

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